Random SF tracker ettiquete questions
First, do we care about closing RFEs? I realized that Skip does not keep count of them in his weekly summary so I am not sure how much we care about them. Should I waste my time wading through them to close them? Second, when is it okay to reassign a tracker item to yourself or close an item that is assigned to another person? I ask this because Fred has some patches assigned to him that I think I can close myself, but I don't want to step on his toes since they are assigned to him. Third, when does someone warrant being mentioned in the ACKS.txt file? Only when they have done some significant body of work? Or does committing even a one-line patch warrant inclusion? -Brett P.S.: Python got to #6 on SF's most active projects. Maybe I am overdoing the comments on patches. =)
"Brett C." <bac@OCF.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
First, do we care about closing RFEs? I realized that Skip does not keep count of them in his weekly summary so I am not sure how much we care about them. Should I waste my time wading through them to close them?
I remember Martin pointing out that we should prioritize patches over bug reports, as for a patch someone has actually put some work in. By this light RFEs are at the bottom of the pile.
Second, when is it okay to reassign a tracker item to yourself or close an item that is assigned to another person? I ask this because Fred has some patches assigned to him that I think I can close myself, but I don't want to step on his toes since they are assigned to him.
All doc bugs get assigned to Fred by default, IIRC. These means he probably doesn't feel too attached to them...
Third, when does someone warrant being mentioned in the ACKS.txt file? Only when they have done some significant body of work? Or does committing even a one-line patch warrant inclusion?
I err on the side of adding people. It's a judgement call. IMHO pointing out a typo in the docs isn't sufficient, but just about anything that involves thinking is.
P.S.: Python got to #6 on SF's most active projects. Maybe I am overdoing the comments on patches. =)
Nonsense! Cheers, M. -- Good? Bad? Strap him into the IETF-approved witch-dunking apparatus immediately! -- NTK now, 21/07/2000
Brett C. writes:
Second, when is it okay to reassign a tracker item to yourself or close an item that is assigned to another person? I ask this because Fred has some patches assigned to him that I think I can close myself, but I don't want to step on his toes since they are assigned to him.
If you have the time to review them, please feel free to reassign to yourself. I'm really busy with other projects at the moment, so I'm unlikely to get to them real soon. Thanks! -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
First, do we care about closing RFEs? I realized that Skip does not keep count of them in his weekly summary so I am not sure how much we care about them. Should I waste my time wading through them to close them?
I don't think that's a waste of time. It's good to keep track of how much progress we make in any dimension.
Second, when is it okay to reassign a tracker item to yourself or close an item that is assigned to another person? I ask this because Fred has some patches assigned to him that I think I can close myself, but I don't want to step on his toes since they are assigned to him.
All doc issues are automatically assigned to Fred (maybe this needs to be revised); I don't think he'll be offended if you take some work of his chest.
Third, when does someone warrant being mentioned in the ACKS.txt file? Only when they have done some significant body of work? Or does committing even a one-line patch warrant inclusion?
I tend to add people to Misc/ACKS for any code contribution whatsoever, including one-liners.
-Brett
P.S.: Python got to #6 on SF's most active projects. Maybe I am overdoing the comments on patches. =)
No, please keep it up. :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
Guido van Rossum writes:
All doc issues are automatically assigned to Fred (maybe this needs to be revised); I don't think he'll be offended if you take some work of his chest.
Is this still the case? I'm fairly certain I changed that, given the amount of time I haven't been able to spend over the past several months. (I'm pretty sure I actually changed that last year... I'd check but the SF website is down.) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
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